Meryl's Notes Blog

Jump drive, thumb drive… whatever you call those portable drives are the floppies of today. They hold more data, they’re more portable, and they’re less likely to stop working. We learned about their indestructibility by accident, and I don’t recommend testing yours unless you don’t care what happens to it.

Paul forgot to empty his pockets before throwing his pants into the wash. My eyes widened when I pulled out the USB drive from the wash. Paul wasn’t mad as he uses the drive like a floppy — to move data from PC to PC. He plugged it in and the PC found the data on the drive! Lucky.

What do you know? He didn’t learn anything from that lesson as he did it again — except not with one — but TWO USB drives. One was the same from the previous incident and they both worked! So how many washes can a USB drive survive before it stops working? That’s not a theory we plan to test. Well, you can say he has the cleanest USB drives in town.